daylight between himself and his one-time campaign chief. in that raid fbi agents seized documents related to special counsel robert mueller s sprawling russia investigation. and now manafort has a new legal team, one specializing in complex financial crimes and reports mueller has subpoenaed bank records involving manafort and his business partners. it s clear manafort has some stories to tell. bloomberg reports it was manafort who alerted authorities to don junior s meeting with the russian lawyer. manafort soperate ining with th investigation. the author of the book the making of donald trump and karen finney, political analyst and former hillary clinton spokesperson. thank you for being here. clinton, i want to go to you first. john dowd told the wall street journal in criticizing the raid, said this extraordinary invasive tool was for shock value to bring mr. manafort to
oh my. the current chevy silverado. it s the chevy summer drive. get a total value of $9,600 or, get 0% financing for 60 months on this silverado all star. find new roads at your local chevy dealer. the president is not thinking about firing bob mueller. this speculation that s out there is incorrect. the decision that the president were to make on bob mueller is a decision that i m not involved in, would not be involved in, and frankly, the president has not raised with me, with our legal team. president trump s lawyer says the president is not thinking about firing special counsel robert mueller despite reports mueller is following the money trail on the russia investigation. that would be a red line. now there is a bipartisan senate bill, actually two, that would
contain it. i think trump feels frustrated. feels under siege by members of his own government and i think that s part of what this interview showed britt he lashed out in a bunch of different directions and so look, jeff sessions was one of his earliest supporters. so it s a bit striking to see him lash out. i am sure he has told sessions this privately. trump has this, he is known for his candor. he says what s on his mind and maybe doesn t think about the consequences. chris: and you talk about he lashed out in a variety of directions, president trump put robert mueller on notice, talking how far he could take his investigation. here is the president with the new york times . mueller was looking at your finances, your family s finances, unrelated to russia. is it a redline? to go without be a breach? i would say yes. chris: mollie, this comes as bloomberg news reports
contain it. i think trump feels frustrated. feels under siege by members of his own government and i think that s part of what this interview showed britt he lashed out in a bunch of different directions and so look, jeff sessions was one of his earliest supporters. so it s a bit striking to see him lash out. i am sure he has told sessions this privately. trump has this, he is known for his candor. he says what s on his mind and maybe doesn t think about the consequences. chris: and you talk about he lashed out in a variety of directions, president trump put robert mueller on notice, talking how far he could take his investigation. here is the president with the new york times . mueller was looking at your finances, your family s finances, unrelated to russia. is it a redline? to go without be a breach? i would say yes. chris: mollie, this comes as bloomberg news reports
we can talk about motive, we don t know yet, you can talk about terrorism, but this is an attack against democracy, it really is, when you re going after people who are the elected officials of the united states. christine, in our country s 241-year history, we ve lost four presidents, we ve lost several cabinet members. we ve only lost one congressman, leo ryan from california who was killed in guyana during the jim jones investigation. that s right. gabby giffords, there was an attempt on her life in 2011. but think about that, 241 years and it only happened one time. lucky. yeah. all right. thank you so much. you re welcome. we ll have you come become. a lot to talk about with this investigation. a new report in the russia investigation. cnn has learned special counsel robert mueller plans to meet with the trump administration s top intelligence officials. meantime, the washington post reports mueller is expanding his probe to include possible obstruction of justic